Gen. Ann Dunwoody and her husband, U.S. Air Force Retired Col. Craig Brotchie, in Bend, Oregon. Lt. Gen.
Meet General Ann Dunwoody, the first female four-star general of United States of America! General Ann E. Dunwoody, the Commanding General of U.S. Army Materiel Command received her fourth star on 14 November 2008, becoming the first woman in the U.S. military to hold the rank of a four-star general.
“There is no one more surprised than I, except of course, my husband [Craig Brotchie, a retired USAF pilot],” she said in her acceptance speech yesterday, ”And you know what they say, behind every successful woman there’s an astonished man.”
Born in 1953 at Fort Belvoir of Virginia, Ann Dunwoody is from a military family which has fought in every American war since the Revolution according to army chief of staff Gen George Casey. Dunwoody graduated from State University of New York with a degree in physical education and was direct commissioned into the Women’s Army Corps in 1975. Since then, she has embarked a military career spanning 33 (and increasing) years. [wikipedia]
General Ann Dunwoody photos gallery (via Flickr/Amry.Mil) after jump:
Gen. Ann Dunwoody sits with her mother, Betty, and her husband, U.S. Air Force Retired Col. Craig F. Brotchie during a 1st Corps Support Command change of command at Fort Bragg, N.C. Lt. Gen.
During Desert Storm, Gen. Ann Dunwoody (then a Major) was a Division Parachute Officer in the 82nd Airborne Division.
Gen. Ann Dunwoody poses in Normandy, France in 1994 for the 50th Anniversary of the invasion of Europe.
Gen. Ann Dunwoody is pictured during a Women's Officer Training Course in Sept. 1975.
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